Chapter 169: Charming Edo Castle II

'Whoosh...'

Chen Cao stood up on his horse, and under his observation, the Dingwu soldiers who rushed over at this moment had suffered at least four or five hundred casualties, and Chen Cao was shocked to see it.

"What the hell, Ning Guoxing, take the tiger squat cannon and mortar, and get close to Lao Tzu."

Chen Cao couldn't take care of the momentum of a marquis, all kinds of swear words came out, and immediately forced out his momentum in Liaodong back then, and immediately rode his horse and rushed forward: "Follow me." ”

"Master Hou..."Zhao Xin saw that Chen Cao had already ridden his horse and rushed over.

At this time, it can be said that the whole army was dispatched, and more than 30,000 cavalry rushed towards the Edo Castle Gate, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

Sakai Iehei quickly put away the thousand lili tube in his hand, and then shouted sharply at the retainers beside him: "Order the artillery team to immediately assemble in front of the city gate and prepare, and the death squad will bypass through the south gate and prepare to fight with the Ming people." ”

"Yes..."

At this moment, the firearms of the Japanese army in front of the city gate have all been suppressed by the Dingwu army, and the combat effectiveness of the fierce fire oil and thunder canisters is unimaginable to the guards of the city gate of the Japanese army.

"Shi Xiu..."

Song Che turned his head and shook his head a little helplessly: "Master Hou, the opponent's musket is far away." ”

"Master Hou, this is a turtledove made by the red-haired fan of Haojing." Zhao Xin picked up a Japanese firearm that fell from the city from the ground: "This bird gun is the latest firearm of the Franc machine man, with a range of two hundred paces, and the power is huge, even a chariot can easily penetrate it." ”

Chen Cao was suddenly shocked, what surprised him was that the Portuguese had developed such a firearm with such a huge range and power so early, but what made him happy was that they were not as good as his own gunsmith who had crossed over, otherwise they would have been beaten by their opponents in today's situation.

"Some of them dismounted and prepared to attack on foot."

Riding a war horse and slowly entering the city was a live target, and there was an urn tower in front of them, and now it was only the outer city that was broken.

"Arrange people to go up the city wall and the horse road, cover from a high position, Ning Guoxing, go up to the city wall, and use mortars to disrupt the enemy in the urn tower."

After Chen Cao made some arrangements, he looked at Song Che: "Use all the thunder canisters and fierce fire oil you brought, don't save," Chen Cao's face was ugly: "So many brothers have died, pass the order down, and after entering the city, if you resist, you will be killed, let the regiment commander order to go down, and all the valuable things will be confiscated, and the people and officials and businessmen in the city will definitely not let go." ”

"Yes..."

.

Sakai Iehei is now relying on the new artillery and muskets bought by the shogunate and the red-haired people a few years ago, the muskets are turtledove guns, and the artillery is a 300-pound copper cannon, as long as it fires scattered bullets, it is the same as the tiger squat cannon equipped in Chen Cao's troops, and this 300-pound copper cannon is much more powerful than the tiger squat cannon, and the firing range is also farther than the tiger squat cannon.

In front of the gate of the urn city in front of the front, there are four copper cannons, and bags of scattered bullets and whole boxes of gunpowder are in front of the copper cannons.

Sakai Iehei was behind the firearms unit, with a horse tied on the prepared high platform, looking straight at the doorway under the city gate.

With a wave of the fan, Sakai Iehei shouted, "Open the city gate..."

'Squeak...'

The city gate opened, and the soldiers of the 1st Division, who were about to rush in a coordinated attack, glared at them, and the muzzles of the four black holes in the distance inside the gate were facing them.

"Be careful..."

"Disperse..."

'Knock knock knock...'

The four cannons rang out, as long as the soldiers who appeared at the gate of the city, without exception, all of them were hit by scattered bullets, and a large number of them were killed by scattered bullets in an instant.

"Iron Artillery Team, put..."

Seeing that the artillery was working, Sakai Iehei immediately ordered the soldiers with the turtledove guns to continue the attack, and the turtledove guns could fire scattered bullets in addition to large-caliber lead bullets, and at this moment they were shooting scattered bullets.

"Spread out... Disperse..."

Chen Cao looked at what happened one after another, and the open city gate hole took the lives of at least more than 100 people under his command, and he couldn't help but be angry: "Ning Guoxing..."

A loud roar startled the people around Chen Cao.

Ning Guoxing could see the situation in the urn city, but he could only see the infantry team behind Sakai Jiahei, and this was the time to test him as the commander of the artillery regiment.

"The landing point of the cannonball must be against the city wall, and the muzzle of the mortar must be adjusted as high as possible," Ning Guoxing thought to himself, and then he decided to go into battle in person.

"The muzzle of the cannon is raised by fifty-five..."Ning Guoxing didn't know the bottom of his heart, took the **** from the soldier's hand, and then put it vertically.

'Boom...'

Smoke came out of the muzzle, and in an instant, the infantry team behind Sakai Iehei exploded, killing twenty or thirty people on the spot, and the team was immediately in chaos.

"Commander, it's missing..."

"Lao Tzu saw it," Ning Guoxing didn't have time to think about it, if he delayed for a while, the opponent's artillery array was likely to withdraw, and he didn't know where it would appear at that time.

"Raise it by seventy..."Ning Guoxing turned the rotary support two and a half times, this is almost the limit of the mortar, if it continues to be raised, the shells are likely to fall in Chen Cao's military formation below.

"Eighty-five is the limit... Bring the shells..."

Ning Guoxing took a deep breath, and as a result, the cannonball put the tail of the cannonball in one go.

'Boom...'

'Boom...'

With the sound of the explosion, Sakai Iehei exploded in five steps behind him, and dozens of people, including himself, fell to the ground, and the foot equipment on his back was torn open by shrapnel, and blood burst out.

"Your Excellency..."

"Quick, cover the Lord and retreat..."

"Retreat..."

Chen Cao saw the chaos of the Japanese army in the doorway, and suddenly came with confidence: "Thunder canisters, throw them all in, and blow up their artillery." ”

The smoke of the thunder canister was thrown by Kong Wu's powerful grenadiers along the door hole and the urn city tower, Chen Cao also had concerns, once the door hole of the urn city tower was blown up, they could only climb the wall if they wanted to enter.

My dignified Ming Kingdom Marquis asked me to climb the wall to get in, which is absolutely not good.

'Boom, boom, boom...'

A violent explosion sounded, and the well-trained Dingwu army rushed into the urn city under the personal leadership of Song Che, and once they entered the urn city, it was equivalent to entering the Edo city.

Seeing this, Chen Cao breathed a sigh of relief, and then commanded behind him: "Pass the order, at least one brigade of troops must block the gates at each gate of Edo Castle, and not a single gate can be let go." ”

"Yes..."

To deal with the Japanese people, Chen Cao didn't need to 'encircle three and lack one' at all, under the power of powerful muskets, where were those samurai opponents of firearms, and Chen Cao didn't believe that there were many Western muskets in Edo Castle.

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

The Dingwu army that rushed into the city and the defending troops of the Japanese army had a fierce musket exchange, but the Dingwu army also knew to find cover when the musket salvo was fired, and the Japanese army stood straight in place and took turns to shoot, and this kind of rotational three-stage shooting was absolutely not feasible when both sides had firearms.

Of course, Chen Cao also taught them a trick to break the enemy, that is, the musket formation of the British in the next hundred years, holding a smoothbore gun to shoot at the opponent at 30 paces, in this case, as long as the gun is fired, people will die, which is also the key to the British dominating Europe a hundred years later.

Of course, the most important thing in this formation is the courage of the soldiers, facing the opponent at a distance of 150 paces and firing in unison, once reaching 30 paces, only one salvo is needed, the opponent's formation can collapse, and it is directly a bayonet for a white-knuckle battle.

In the case of being approached by a musket, who can still exert super strength in a white-knuckle battle? Therefore, only the share of defeat awaits the opponent.

"Shield cover, step forward seventy steps in unison," Keguang at the front shouted first.

The two mortars just now had disrupted the formation of the Japanese army, and an important reason for their panic was that the shells had affected the commander Sakai Iehei, whose fate was now unknown.

And now the Ming army stepped forward with shields, causing heavy psychological pressure on their teams that still had firearms.

"What should I do?" One of the captains asked aloud.

No one answered, and the commander of the Iron Artillery Corps was already begging for death in the chaotic rain of bullets, and the opponent was walking towards them.

"Open the shield, fire a salvo..."

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

'Bang bang... Bang bang ... Bang bang...'

Approaching the salvo within 70 paces, the new flintlock pistol, which is also a front-loading smoothbore gun, has a much advantage over the Japanese army with turtledove guns and iron cannons, although they can inflict casualties on the given armed forces after a wave, but it is not a lasting damage, and the reloading time of one minute can fire three rounds of paper-shelled lead bullets.

After suffering another fifty or sixty casualties, the Hakguang Xian Division finally arrived in front of the 70-step formation of the Japanese army, and after two rounds of volleys, Keguang first drew his sword and shouted: "Get on the bayonet, attack freely, charge..."

"Kill..."

The front team of the Japanese army has completely collapsed, and those who can survive have begun to run away, who would dare to fight under the opponent's firearms? Besides, the battle had already been fought to this point, but fortunately they were the direct troops of the Tokugawa family, and if they were to change to other feudal daimyos, the battle would be over after a round of shelling of the main general fell to the ground, and it would be impossible to resist the opponent's second charge.

"Master Hou..."The herald quickly rushed out of the door: "General Song led a large team of men and horses to kill in." ”

Chen Cao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the corpse of the Dingwu sergeant under the war horse, and said: "Except for Tokugawa Iemitsu and some important ministers, I will not accept anyone's surrender, I want to build a capital temple in Edo Castle..."

Zhao Xin took a deep breath: "Master Hou, the people? ”

"Adult men, kill as many as you want, women can stay, and don't seal the knife..."

Chen Cao said coldly.

Zhao Xin nodded: "My subordinates understand, let's arrange it..."